Originally Posted by SantoDomingoS5

What's the name of your dealer? where is at? Sounds like they are jerking you around, perhaps they didn't take you serious the first time or maybe they got the car and someone else came in with cash!

Originally Posted by UmIsThisThingOn

It sounds like your dealer didn't have an allocation but sold you a line of BS.
If they had an allocation, you would have had a status update by now.

If I were you, I'd got to another dealer and hedge your bet by ordering another car there.

Originally Posted by cuzzizzle

... Luckily it has progressed now and it says "Production Stock" I'm not really to sure what that means? but I assume it will be getting built sometime shortly?

Originally Posted by Andrewaw

Hey, Tim Hayes, an awesome Audi Rep, posted this guide sometime last year. Should answer your questions

THERE IS NO NEED TO RUN A COM NUMBER EVERY OTHER DAY OR EVERY WEEK FOR THAT MATTER!

First and foremost. Allocation is granted on the 14-15th of every month. If your dealer is granted Allocation the system will automatically pull the order into the "Factory Order Bank" according to how the dealer has the order ranked in his system. If there are 5 orders he must rank them first through fifth.

Allocation is different for model line. For example a dealer can get 1 manual and 1 automatic. Same goes for the S5.

Once a car is in "Production stock" assume at least 30-40 days before it will go into the next status, which would be "Intransit from Factory" from there it will be another two weeks. At this point the vehicle will have a VIN# and will be submitted for customs clearance. When the vehicle arrives at your countries port of entry, (we have several in the US). It will be marked "Port Stock" From there it will either be trucked (2-10 days based on location)or railed and then trucked (14-17 days)

The next status is (you guessed it) Dealer Stock. This means, the dealer has the car in its inventory and it can be prepped and delivered to the customer...

Originally Posted by scottacus

Factory Order Bank is one step in the order process (it's not the order entry/tracking system itself, which is part of the AccessAudi website dealers have access to). A sold order will have a commission number as soon as it's put in the order system.

The steps are:
IS Order Bank - no allocation
Factory Order Bank - allocation, waiting to be pulled for production
Production Stock - In production
In Transit from Factory - waiting for a boat or on a boat
Port Stock - At port
In Transit Inland - On a train or truck to your dealer
Dealer Stock - At dealer, ready for delivery ...

Originally Posted by UmIsThisThingOn

Here's some info on the status updates: